Yandex Demonstrates Self-Driving Car Technologies on the streets of Las Vegas During CES 2019
January 07 2019 - 9:16AM
Yandex Demonstrates Self-Driving Car Technologies on the streets of
Las Vegas During CES 2019
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX), a technology company that builds intelligent
products and services powered by machine learning, is operating a
self-driving car in Las Vegas with just a safety engineer in the
front passenger seat (NVO Mode). The company will be
providing demonstration rides of its self-driving car on the public
streets of Las Vegas starting from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
during CES 2019.To prepare for CES, the team acquired a car locally
and retrofitted it with the necessary sensors and hardware for
self-driving operation. The team then used Yandex’s mapping
technologies to build a custom HD map of the neighborhood around
the hotel. Yandex’s proprietary self-driving software stack was
then localized and optimized to the driving conditions of Las
Vegas. The transformation of both the car and the software
was completed in only one month. The route tests the Yandex
self-driving car against unprotected left-hand turns, pedestrians,
and busy traffic with speeds up to 45 mph.Las Vegas was the first
test location outside of Russia for Yandex’s self-driving car unit,
and in addition to the CES demo, Yandex recently announced it is
expanding its self-driving tests to Israel.“We are excited to show
our self-driving achievements to the CES community here in the US.
After first building and testing vehicles in Moscow, the world’s
second most congested city, and launching a successful robo-taxi
program that is operating throughout the winter in two cities,
coming to CES was a great opportunity to test our technology’s
scalability and flexibility in a new environment. Similar to
our robo-taxi program, our self-driving car in Las Vegas is
operational with just a safety engineer in the front passenger
seat, which is an important step in advancing our technology.”
Dmitry Polishchuk, Head of Yandex Self-Driving.Yandex first began
working on driverless technology in early 2017, combining our
expertise in machine learning, navigation, mapping tools, and cloud
technologies. In May 2017, Yandex introduced its first
prototype. Currently, Yandex is testing cars against all weather
conditions across three countries and operating robo-taxi services
in two cities in Russia. The two robo-taxi locations have
delivered over 2000 passenger rides with just a safety engineer in
the front passenger seat.
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) is a
technology company that builds intelligent products and services
powered by machine learning. Our goal is to help consumers and
businesses better navigate the online and offline world. Since
1997, we have delivered world-class, locally relevant search and
information services. Additionally, we have developed
market-leading on-demand transportation services, navigation
products, and other mobile applications for millions of consumers
across the globe. Yandex, which has 30 offices worldwide, has been
listed on the NASDAQ since 2011.
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